Senior Backend API Engineer - Ruby on Rails
Modified:
April 16, 2019
Compensation:
$130K-155K DOE
City, State:
New York, New York
Technologies:
Ruby on Rails
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Senior Backend API Engineer - Ruby on Rails
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A B2B tech company is looking to hire another Senior Backend Engineer with extensive experience with Ruby on Rails. Their product is mostly an API that operates as the Nasdaq of the ticketing industry, and this is the platform where ticket ownership changes. Small venues, large venue, and major companies like Live Nation and TicketMaster run through this API to sell tickets.
They work at a massive scale. There are 15M tickets on their platform and they don't own a single one; just manage the transaction. And they have 1,000 transactions/second and 1M pricing updates/hour.
Desired Technical Skills Include:
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or a related field
- 4+ years of large scale production with Ruby on Rails
- Experience with unit testing and test driven development
- API development standards with Ruby, Rails
- Understand how a modern web application works end to end and how applications perform under load
- Strong software engineering & architecture fundamentals. SOA and Microservices a big plus
- Familiar with scaling and refactoring strategies and when to apply them
- Familiar with Agile best practices
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